Schalick wins its season-opening tournament, Woodstown places fourth at Delaware Valley
By Riverview Sports News
CENTERTON – Schalick won seven of the 14 weight divisions and had three other wrestlers in finals to run away with its Holiday Classic Saturday.
The Cougars, competing as a single-school team this year after being a co-op program with Cumberland Regional, scored 238 points. Penns Grove finished second (132) in the seven-team field.
Emma Cain (107), Caleb Jenkins (114), Luke Silva (127), Ayden Jenkins (151), James Cook (166), Ricky Watt (176) and Evan Elliott (191) all won their weight class. Koen Martin (158), Eric Sulik (166) and Gerardo Felipe (216) wrestled in the finals.
Tre Brown (158) and Wayne Scott (285) won weight classes for Penns Grove. Devine Arce (127) and Clinton Bobo (176) wrestled in finals.
Schalick had 15 wrestlers post top-four finishes. Penns Grove had nine wrestlers place in the top four.
SCHALICK HOLIDAY CLASSIC
TEAM SCORES: Schalick 238, Penns Grove 132, West Windsor-Plainsboro South 122.5, Oakcrest 120, Mainland 117, Haddon Heights 103.5, Holy Spirit 71
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES
107: Emma Cain (Schalick) pinned Ethan Kavanakudiyil (WWPS), 4:30
114: Caleb Jenkins (Schalick) maj. dec. over Michael Ferraro (Haddon Heights), 11-3
121: Cole Denning (Haddon Heights) tech fall over Sanchez Joseph (Oakcrest), 17-0
127: Luke Silva (Schalick) dec, Devine Arce (Penns Grove), 9-5
133: Gavin Mensch (Holy Spirit) pinned Braden Monroe (Oakcrest), 1:31
139: Chris Mazur (Mainland) pinned Erick Montas-Aras (Oakcrest), 4:34
145: James Morley (Mainland) pinned Cameron Blaise (WWPS), 1:02
151: Ayden Jenkins (Schalick) tech fall over Carson Endicott (Mainland), 19-3
158: Anthony Brown (Penns Grove) pinned Koen Martin (Schalick), 1:08
166: James Cook (Schalick) dec. Eric Sulik (Schalick), 11-4
176: Ricky Watt (Schalick) dec. Clinton Bobo (Penns Grove), 10-7
191: Evan Elliott (Schalick) pinned Alex Krapivin (WWPS), 0:43
216: Jackson Broschard (Holy Spirit) dec. Gerardo Felipe (Schalick), 7-3
285: Wayne Scott (Penns Grove) pinned Nate Lelionis (Haddon Heights), 1:33
Wendy Pandy-Leh Invitational
FRENCHTOWN – Four Woodstown wrestlers, including three members of its blonde brigade, won division titles and led the Wolverines to a solid fourth-place finish in their season-opening tournament at Delaware Valley Regional.
Carson Bradway (120), Greyson Hyland (175) and Mateo Vinciguerra (285) all won their weight class, as did 126 Travis Balback. A fourth member of the blonde brigade, Paul Banff, finished third at 190.
Bradway drew a first-round bye, then scored a pair of pins and won his weight class with a major decision. Balback also had two pins and a major. Hyland had two pins and won his title bout by decision. Vinciguerra drew two byes and scored two pins.
Vinciguerra told Riverview Sports News earlier in the week the four friends went for the dye job “for the fun of it, to have fun in the season.”
“I’ve seen other teams do it before,” the Wolverines’ heavyweight said. “It’s just a fun thing to do, just maybe get some team chemistry.”
The Wolverines also got top four finishes from Brett Rowand (second, 157); Alex Torres (fourth, 132); and Bradley Snitcher (third, 215). Rowand had three pins before being pinned in his title bout.
The Wolverines scored 153 points. Ocean Twp. edged Del Val by two points to win the team title.
“While we have a lot of work to do, we wrestled well in spots,” Wolverines coach Adam Hyland said. “Travis Balback looked great all day up a weight from last year and so did Carson Bradway down a weight. Both were attacking and wrestling a fun style to watch.
“Greyson and Mateo got the job done and Brett Rowand looked solid coming in second. Bradley Snitcher also wrestled well pinning three guys while taking third.”
WENDY PANDY-LEH INVITATIONAL
TEAM SCORES: Ocean Twp. 180, Del Val Regional 178, Wall 163.5, Woodstown 153, Westfield 111.5, Williamstown 110.5, Cherokee 83, Princeton 76, Vorhees (Glen Gardner) 56.5, Pascack Hills 28.
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES
106: Adam Froehlich (Williamstown) pinned Michael Apicelli (Ocean Twp.), pinned 3:22
113: Tristan Rosemeyer (Williamstown) maj. dec. over Omar Carrillo-Solano (Wall), 21-11
120: Carson Bradway (Woodstown) maj. dec. over Charles Mahoney (Wall), 15-4
126: Travis Balback (Woodstown) pinned Ben Waitzel (Wall), 1:58
132: Jaden Perez (Del Val) pinned Steven Perez (Ocean Twp.), 1:32
138: Dominic Volek (Ocean Twp.) def. Cole Rose (Princeton), inj. (5:15)
144: Michael Volek (Ocean Twp.) pinned Michael Hasson (Del Val), 3:41
150: Blase Mele (Princeton) pinned Parker Quinn (Wall), 1:26
157: Luke Sinkewicz (Del Val) pinned Brett Rowand (Woodstown), 1:45
165: Jeremy Marsella (Wall) tech fall over Olivier Paul (Del Val), 17-1 (2:45)
175: Greyson Hyland (Woodstown) dec. Jack McDermott (Westfield), 8-2
190: Jake Zemsky (Westfield) maj. dec. over Deryk Hannold (Williamstown), 12-1
215: Daniel Farina (Ocean Twp.) pinned Eric Clauburg (Wall), 1:57
285: Mateo Vinciguerra (Woodstown) pinned Luken Alberdi (Del Val), 1:03
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